Citizen Erased
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"Citizen Erased" is a song by English alternative rock band Muse from their second studio album Origin of Symmetry. The track is 7 minutes and 19 seconds long, making it the longest single track in Muse's discography, and second longest piece. The song has a synthetic ending that leads straight into the next track on the album, Micro Cuts. The song has long been a fan favourite, and in July 2007, a Muse fan site, Muselive.com, launched a campaign [1] to get it into the singles charts through various download sources. The track managed to get to number 1 on the British download company 7digital's charts, but failed to make it into the official UK Top 40. It did however, chart at #122.
Matthew Bellamy has described the song thus: "It's an expression of what it feels like to be questioned. I spend more time than most people being asked about purpose, and it's a strange feeling. I don't really have the answers and I have to respond on the knowledge I have obtained so far, but the problem is that it gets printed, and something else has come along that's made you completely disagree with what you said"[2].
The guitar parts were recorded with a six-string guitar with the sixth string tuned down to A (AADGBE). Live, the guitar part is played on a seven-string, with the tuning, low to high, AADDGBE[citation needed], the A strings an octave apart and the D strings at the same pitch.
This song regularly appeared at the top of the "choose the setlist" polls Muse ran for their 2010 European summer tour, along with fellow fan-favourite song "Bliss", also from the band's second album. Bellamy noted the song as a fan favourite during the September 4th concert at the LCCC in Manchester and joked the band's official website will be changed to citizenerased.com
On the December 9th 2010 in Sydney,Australia, Bellamy temporarily changed Citizen Erased to Citizen Arrested as a response to the Australian founder ofWikiLeaks, Julian Assange's, arrest in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences.
